Search ACOR  Site Contents: o Types of Leukemia • Living with Leukemia • Transplants • Blood & Pathology • Survivor Stories • Medical & Cancer Links • Resources Resources for HCL  Resources for Hairy Cell Leukemia The NCI PDQ patient statement on Hairy Cell leukemia. The NCI PDQ physician statement on Hairy Cell leukemia. Hairy Cell Leukemia Research Foundation, this site is maintained by Sherwood Hanford a HCL survivor. Mark Taubensee's Hairy Leukemia Page. Mark is an HCL survivor and has collected quite a bit of information on HCL, including stories of other survivors. Hairy Cell Leukemia (HCL) a booklet from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America which aims to provide information about CML to patients and their families. Hairy Cell Leukemia by Emmanuel C Besa, MD and Ulrich Woermann, MD, from the eMedicine World Medicine Library. This is a very technical review of the symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of HCL.  Other articles on HCL Efficacy of the anti-CD22 recombinant immunotoxin BL22 in chemotherapy-resistant hairy-cell leukemia by Kreitman RJ,et al., New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 345, No. 4, July 26, 2001, pages 241-247. (The full article is available for free 6 months after publication, the article abstract is available now.) This article describes a Phase I trial of BL22 in 16 HCL patients who were resistant to cladribine. Most (11 out of 16) obtained a complete remission and those that relapsed (3 out of 11) were treated again and obtained another remission. Pentostatin and cladribine for hairy cell leukaemia. Report No. 45, December, 1995 from the Development and Evaluation Committee of the National Health Service South & West Research & Development Directorate, UK.  Hairy Cell Leukemia Stories Adult HCL Patient Stories Information on subscribing to the HCL mailing list HOME  ::  ABOUT THIS SITE  ::  CONTACT Last updated: January 07, 2005 Copyright ©2004, 2005 ACOR, Inc. All worldwide rights reserved. ACOR and ACOR.org are registered trademarks of the Association of Online Cancer Resources, Inc.